Faced with the dualism that has often characterized Christian doc- trine, contemporary thought tends to propose "secularized man" as antidote to "dichotomous man." But, says the author, that is too high a price to pay. A view of persons as "theonomous" will largely mitigate the dualities in our tradition. Building on the systematic theology developed by Wolfhart Pannenberg. Jürgen Moltmann, Carl Braaten, and others sometimes known as the "theology of hope"-James Childs plots some of the contributions eschatological theology makes toward both a contem- porary understanding of anthropology and an explication of the Christian ethic.